The Rise and Fall of a Radical

The titular Wreck turns out to be, as I ought to have known, American imperialism, ever swinish, criminal, tawdry, and doomed. The book is merely a scrapbook of Cockburn’s railings in recent years against the Israel lobby, homosexuals, Democrats, liberals, and especially “Uncle Sam’s true face,” which is the CIA, Cockburn’s hobbyhorse.